Phenylosotriazole derivatives

On oxidation of the phenylosotriazole derivative of the disaccharide with sodium periodate, three moles of periodate are consumed with the formation of one mole each of formic acid and formaldehyde per mole of the phenylosotriazole derivative. If the D-glucose in the u-glucopyrano-syl-L-arabinose phenylosotriazole were attached to carbon atom 4 of the L-arabinose derivative, oxidation of this compound with sodium periodate would require two moles of periodate and would liberate one mole of... 

Alekhine had mentioned that turanose reacts with phenylhydrazine. Maquenne prepared the phenylosazone and described its precipitation from water in the flocculent or gel condition that is so very characteristic of the substance, but he did not report an analysis. A year after Ma-quenne s publication, Emil Fischer16 examined a small sample of amorphous turanose which had been sent by Dr. Konowaloff of Moscow. Its phenylosazone was prepared in good crystalline form by several recrystallizations from aqueous alcohol the analysis of these crystals proved conclusively the disaccharide formula for turanose which Alekhine had proposed from the analysis of amorphous substances. The writer had occasion recently to prepare turanose phenylosazone in considerable quantity its very characteristic properties and those of the derived phenylosotriazole are described on pages 27 and 28. 

The phenylosotriazoles of a considerable number of reducing sugars have been prepared (see Table II, p. 117). Apart from these phenyl derivatives, several other substituted arylosotriazoles have been prepared, usually from the corresponding osazones (see Table III, p. 120). 

The identification of disaccharides is usually made through derivatives such as phenylosazones, phenylosotriazoles or octaacetates. Some general properties of phenylosazones and octaacetates of several disaccharides are shown in Table II. 

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